"Are the troops assembled?" Hu Xiaoyan squinted his eyes.

"Assembled! Fifteen hundred people in total! Wang Tingjiao bowed his head and replied.

"You personally command this battle, and I will press you with Ma Dashuai. The only requirement is to preserve the integrity of the Forbidden City as much as possible. But the most important thing is to save the safety of our soldiers as the first priority! Hu Xiaoyan waved his hand.

Wang Tingjiao stepped back.

"Lord Hu! There are still more than 10,000 enemies, so you let Lord Wang attack with 1,500 men, won't it be too big? Ma Yukun seemed to be half-asleep, and his voice was very soft. Xia Yan and Xiao Young beside him were boiling medicine.

"Humph! If he can't take it, there is no need for Wang Tingjiao to be an official anymore. Hu Xiaoyan replied lightly.

In order to protect the Forbidden City, Hu Xiaoyan sent at least a hundred special forces. And the 1,500 people under Wang Tingjiao's command are not ordinary people. These people (3,000 in total) have been training with special forces for a long time, and they are very familiar with the special forces. Recruits for the special forces are also selected from among these people. All of them are special forces reserves. The soldiers of this army were all recruited and excavated from various units by Hu Xiaoyan at the beginning of the establishment of the army. Their salaries were twice as high as those of ordinary combat troops. Although they are not as good as the real special forces, they are certainly one of the best jungle warfare experts in this era.

Although there are only fifteen hundred. But their equipment isn't bad at all! Except for the lack of revolvers, they are equipped with the same equipment as the special forces, and all the rifles to daggers and crossbows are all specially customized by Hu Xiaoyan from the Hanyang Arsenal! Otherwise, was Hu Xiaoyan's support for Zhang Zhidong's large sum of silver given for nothing? There are also Krupp artillery, Maxine machine guns. If it weren't for the fact that the light machine gun had not been produced so far, Hu Xiaoyan would even have let the light machine gun be sent to the squad level.

There are 1,500 copycat special forces, and 100 authentic special forces. Maxine, Krupp artillery. Behind them there is also Zhengyangmen, where artillery and infantry are ready to support. If you can't even take the Forbidden City, then Hu Xiaoyan can let these people buy a piece of tofu and kill him.

Hu Xiaoyan's special forces are the only special forces in this era!

It can be said that it was a coincidence that Wang Tingjiao became the highest military commander under Hu Xiaoyan, but he was young and studious. Also trained with special forces. Letting him lead the team is the best way, otherwise a commander who has never won a battle will not be able to control the field.

Five airships also flew to the Forbidden City to provide the necessary fire support for the infantry. The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Yuan came to Zhengyangmen.

"My lord, Yamaguchi Suchen is ambushed. It was also reported that Deshengmen was full of Japanese troops, and there was no shadow of other countries' armies! ”

"What?" Hu Xiaoyan was taken aback. He quickly closed his eyes and pulled up the map in his mind and took a closer look.

Sure enough, the Japanese army concentrated training near Deshengmen, distributing ammunition and strategic deployment. There is not a single foreigner here.

So where are the Westerners such as the British, the French, and the Russians? They are now distributed in the other eight gates! It's not done at all!

"The Japanese are going to escape! They want Westerners to be backs! Hu Xiaoyan came to his senses.

The Japanese army is very strong, how strong is it? During the Russo-Japanese War, the army led by Nogi Noshinori could not conquer the positions defended by the Russian army, and in a fit of rage, Nogi Noshinori asked his subordinates to launch a decisive charge. Wave after wave of army soldiers were slaughtered by the artillery fire and Maxin sent by Nogi Noshinori to the Russian army, and in the end, the Russian commanders were shocked. Until the barrel of the Russian army was hot, the barrel was hot, and when the Russian army changed the barrel, the Japanese army rushed to the Russian position and had hand-to-hand combat with the Russian army. The originally tall and brave Russian army was defeated in hand-to-hand combat by the red-eyed Japanese army. This is the controversial Battle of Arthur in Nogi Noshinori's life. Most of the Japanese casualties in this battle were not caused by the normal confrontation between the two sides, but were slaughtered by the artillery fire and Maxin machine guns that Nogi Noshinori sent to the Russians.

This war completely made the Great Powers and Russia realize that there are people in the world who are more afraid of death than Russia! And the army that is even more brutal than the Russian army!

It was precisely this battle and the subsequent Russo-Japanese naval battle that allowed the Japanese army to truly gain the recognition of the great powers!

If the Japanese army and Hu Xiaoyan's subordinates were really allowed to engage in close combat, Hu Xiaoyan was sure that his new army was definitely not the opponent of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army would be able to break through the position of the new army without even a single round.

At present, the most combative force in China is Yuan Shikai's new army, but Yuan Shikai's army is also unable to stop the Japanese army for a round. This is the sorrow of the Manchus, and it is also the sorrow of China.

Thinking of this, Hu Xiaoyan sweated. He had always thought that the coalition forces were already turtles in an urn in the inner city! He is not a regular military commander after all!

"Reinforcements immediately! The airship troops don't have to worry about the Forbidden City! Immediately go to Deshengmen to bomb indiscriminately! Hu Xiaoyan opened his eyes and ordered. These Japanese troops must not be allowed to escape! They don't have much ammunition, not even much food. If the Japanese army escapes, there will be no peace around Beijing! The Japanese army in motion will be more difficult to deal with than the guerrillas in another time and space! Even the Japanese army with only bayonets in their hands was not something that the group of new troops under Hu Xiaoyan could handle. This kind of thing must not happen!

"Annihilate this Japanese army at all costs!"

Ma Yukun was taken aback: "Master Hu! ”

Hu Xiaoyan pressed his hand.

"Ma Dashuai! You must not let the tiger return to the mountain! Otherwise, it will be a failure! Even if you blow up the entire city of Beijing, you have to leave them behind! ”

Otherwise, he will fall into the post-war negotiations. The war will go on forever! Hu Xiaoyan didn't say this sentence! He said: We must use iron and blood to cool down the Eight-Nation Alliance. This is how negotiations can be resumed!

If this group of Japanese troops is allowed to escape, Japan will definitely support this Japanese army at all costs, and the Japanese army in Korea is more likely to rush into China in one fell swoop. And the Russian army is also very likely to join forces with the Japanese army to kill out of Siberia. Britain and France will be happy to see it happen!

Hu Xiaoyan only has ten airships at his disposal now! Is it possible to defeat the Japanese-Russian coalition with ten airships? You must know that once the Japanese-Russian coalition forces are united, they will at least exceed 100,000!

According to Hu Xiaoyan, there are still more than 20,000 Russian troops in Siberia, and Japan can recruit more than 500,000 North Korean troops in Korea at any time.

What does he take to fight? Anhui's new army? Yuan Shikai is still watching in Shandong, and Zhang Zhidong is even more immovable. The two most powerful ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not come out, and Hu Xiaoyan did not have any strength to command these two bigwigs.

"Who is commanding Deshengmen now?" As soon as the herald left, Hu Xiaoyan suddenly asked.

"The coach of Deshengmen is Zhang Hongkui!" Ma Yukun replied.

Hu Xiaoyan was stunned, how could Ma Yukun know?

"If it were me, I could completely give up Deshengmen and give it to the Japanese army." Ma Yukun sat back on the recliner.

"Oh? Why? Hu Xiaoyan was secretly anxious and a little curious. He knew that Ma Yukun, the battlefield veteran, must have a reason to say this.

"Desheng Gate is just a city gate, how many people can it pass out at one time? The Japanese did not have artillery to attack our positions from a distance. We could have set up a position at the gate of the city and arranged it as a pocket. If the Japanese army wanted to break through, they had to rush into their pockets in a steady stream. We laid out a ring fortification on the position, and Maxine crossed the arrangement of firing. Then use the Krupp cannon to block the open space between Deshengmen and our positions. How many Japanese soldiers had to die to break through our positions? Ma Yukun finished in one breath.

"Are we just going to set up a position? We can completely arrange three circular positions, and even if the first line is lost, it will not matter. How many bullets did the Japanese exchange with us? ”

Hu Xiaoyan's eyes widened and he could only give a thumbs up. Sure enough, it's a veteran! He looked back at Zhang Shaozeng.

"What are you doing in a daze?"

Zhang Shaozeng rolled his eyes, in fact, he wanted to say it a long time ago, but he didn't dare. But now is not the time to dwell on that.

Zhang Hongkui was originally very happy, but it was finally his turn to make meritorious contributions. But when he heard that more than 10,000 Japanese troops on the opposite side were all rushing here, he was dumbfounded. He has less than 2,000 cats under his command. The number of the new army was less than five hundred. The others were all routs of the Boxers and the Armed Guards. Maxine had sixty or seventy. There are only a dozen pieces of artillery. Can you stop the Japanese attack? He was deeply skeptical.

Soon the telegraph operator sent the telegram. Zhang Hongkui couldn't help but nod at first glance. But when I put down the telegram, I felt cold.

Arrange a circular position, this method is very good. But what to arrange? Now is not twenty or thirty years from now, just find a burlap bag to decorate the soil and decorate the sand can be used as an improvised position.

This is the city of Beijing, where did he go to find a burlap bag for a while? Where to find sand?

Wang Xu was also a little dumbfounded by the telegram. The logistics troops had just delivered some shells and bullets, but there were no burlap bags.

"Demolish the houses in the neighborhood!" Wang Xu's head turned.

There are wooden houses and stone houses. Wood can be used as a fixture, and stone can be used for fortifications. It's simple, but it's better than nothing.

"! , I'll give you a thousand people, half an hour! Zhang Hongkui looked at the Japanese position on the opposite side with a bitter face, which seemed to be in some commotion. If it weren't for the fear of destroying too many buildings in the inner city, he would have ordered an artillery bombardment long ago.

"If you can't do it, prepare for shelling. The telegram also said that it was possible to shell. Wang Xu understood Zhang Hongkui's thoughts.

Although the wireless telegraph said so, there were still a few people who dared to do so.

"You go and get ready." Zhang Hongkui could only command the layout of the city gate defense line to buy time for Wang Xu, and he didn't know when the Japanese army would attack.

The Japanese army should have attacked a long time ago. Yamaguchi said that he would wait until the evening to break out, but in fact he gave the Japanese army an order to break out as soon as the training was completed. But at the critical moment, the officers of the Japanese army could not find the commander Yamaguchi Sutomi!

After waiting for a long time, the Japanese army decided not to wait for Yamaguchi Suchen, and it was not once or twice that the middle-level officers of the Japanese army made their own decisions. What's more, the situation is very bad now?

Zhang Hongkui saw that the opposite side was attacking, and then looked at his subordinates, who seemed to have twenty more morale, but he could only smile bitterly. He also underwent professional training in the Martial Arts Academy, and he also cooperated with the extermination of bandits and bandits when he was training in Lieshan. This is the first time in his life that a truly large-scale legion battle has been conducted.

"The Japanese army moved. Let your troops attack, and then try to send someone to persuade the Westerners to surrender! A quick victory, and there is still a chance to copy the back road of the Japanese army. Ma Yukun suggested.

"The Anglo-French army numbered less than 10,000 men, and it was concentrated in four gates. There are less than two thousand people at each gate. If your special forces are really as strong as you say, they will definitely not be able to run. ”

"Attack!" Hu Xiaoyan nodded and ordered Wang Tingjiao, who had already been prepared.